Syukuro Manabe
Syukuro Manabe (born September 21, 1931, Shinritsu, Japan), aged 95, is a Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–). Manabe is best known for general circulation model. Manabe's honours include Nobel Prize in Physics, Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal and William Bowie Medal.
Syukuro Manabe’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Goat, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Goat, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Syukuro
Syukuro Manabe’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Storyteller
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
What Syukuro’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
4
Expression · building what holds
1
Soul Urge · independence
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on S (1) and closes on O (6). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Syukuro’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
The record
What sets Syukuro apart
Kwame Nkrumah (1909) and Stephen King (1947) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Syukuro, according to the stars
Core essence
Syukuro notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Syukuro is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Syukuro wants to be loved
Syukuro wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Syukuro gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Syukuro creates
How Syukuro makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Syukuro creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Syukuro is creative and kind, a Goat year, and their gut reaction is to make it beautiful. Artistic, gentle, easily moved, and the friend everyone confides in. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Syukuro is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Syukuro runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Syukuro's birth date. Working below.
Where Syukuro sits
Six lines
Syukuro’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Syukuro Manabe
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Shinritsu on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Shinritsu that night
Computed for 33.95°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Shinritsu at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 1.8° of the exact zenith.
Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Shinritsu sits at 33.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −56.1° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Shinritsu on any night.
The Moon, 76% lit at waxing gibbous, was still up; the Sun sat 35° below the horizon.
How unusual Syukuro's chart is
Chart pattern score
51 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Virgo · T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunStandards nobody else can meet.
Syukuro Manabe's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 21, 1931, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Metal Goat
Metal GoatKind, and quietly tough.
Syukuro Manabe was born on September 21, 1931, which falls in a Metal Goat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Goat means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Built for the big table.
Syukuro Manabe's birth date, September 21, 1931, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Syukuro’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Syukuro Manabe's date-only chart is Saturn square Uranus, with an orb of about 2°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Syukuro Manabe combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Storyteller.
Syukuro’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Capricorn or Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnsquareUranus1.5° to 1.6° orb
Syukuro’s discipline grinds against their need for freedom.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb
Syukuro’s mind and imagination act as one.
stableSunconjunctionVenus3.4° to 3.6° orb
Syukuro’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarssextileNeptune3.5° to 4.1° orb
stableUranussquarePluto3.7° to 3.8° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus4.1° to 4.3° orb
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.3° orb
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareUranusorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.9° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionSaturnorb from 1.2° to 13.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Syukuro’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Taurus 23°23′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 6°09′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 2°26′ (moves 0.55° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 8°45′ (moves 0.30° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 5°01′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Neptune 0.2°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 1.4°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.8°
Syukuro’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect
2. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus3 pts
in its own sign, Libra; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Syukuro’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.6°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 1.7°
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 1.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 1.9°
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Fellow Virgo suns
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Born in Goat years
- Klaus von KlitzingGerman physicist
- Victor GrignardFrench chemist
- James CroninAmerican physicist
Also born on September 21
- Kwame Nkrumah1909
- Stephen King1947
- Leonard Cohen1934
- Kevin Rudd1957
- Donald Arthur Glaser1926
- Liam Gallagher1972
Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Xavier WattsAmerican football player
- Lamar JacksonAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Jaylinn HawkinsAmerican football player (born 1997)
Other Virgo Goat charts
- Júlio CésarBrazilian footballer
- Aaron PaulAmerican actor
- Dylan O'BrienAmerican actor
- Michael JohnsonAmerican sprinter
Other Steadfast Storytellers
- Brian BranchAmerican football player (born 2001)
- Del'Shawn PhillipsAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Jahlani TavaiAmerican football player (born 1996)
- Ruke OrhorhoroAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Max PircherAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Jacoby BrissettAmerican football player (born 1992)
- Andre SzmytAmerican football player (born 1998)
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Syukuro’s cards
Computed from September 21, 1931. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast StorytellerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Goat 未Life Path
8 · Achiever☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
辛
yin Metal
未
Goat
Earth
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Syukuro’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q3675789 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Syukuro Manabe at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Syukuro Manabe.
Quick answers about Syukuro Manabe’s chart
- How old is Syukuro Manabe?
- Syukuro Manabe is 95 years old, born September 21, 1931 in Shinritsu, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Syukuro Manabe?
- Syukuro Manabe is a Virgo: born September 21, 1931, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Syukuro Manabe's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Goat, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 21, 1931 birth.
- What is Syukuro Manabe's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Syukuro Manabe's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Syukuro Manabe's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Syukuro Manabe's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
